Quotes about nature
nature real thinking
The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know. Robert M. Pirsig
nature writing reality
The seeming significance of nature's appearances, their unchanging strangeness to the senses, and the thrilling response which they awaken in the mind of man . . . If we could only write near enough to the facts, and yet with no pedestrian calm, but ardently, we might transfer the glamour of reality direct upon our pages. Robert Louis Stevenson
nature heart men
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
nature lying flower
Landscapes of great wonder and beauty lie under our feet and all around us. They are discovered in tunnels in the ground, the heart of flowers, the hollows of trees, fresh-water ponds, seaweed jungles between tides, and even drops of water. Life in these hidden worlds is more startling in reality than anything we can imagine. How could this earth of ours, which is only a speck in the heavens, have so much variety of life, so many curious and exciting creatures? Walt Disney
nature people outcomes
People thought they could explain and conquer nature-yet the outcome is that they destroyed it and disinherited themselves from it. Vaclav Havel
nature our-relationship
Our relationship with nature is more one of being than having. We are nature: we do not have nature. Stephen Harper
nature wilderness enough
If we are willing to be still and open enough to listen, wilderness itself will teach us.
nature oil government
We want to see oil and gas regulations on a continental basis given the integrated nature of this industry, with the current conditions in the oil and gas sector, this government will not consider unilateral regulation.
nature realization satisfaction
We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction. Sigmund Freud
nature self-esteem creative-visualization
We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own or other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open. Shakti Gawain
nature want ugly
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. Steven Weinberg
nature men class
Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Her noblest work she classes, O; Her 'prentice han' she tried on man, And then she made the lasses, O! Robert Burns
nature law looks
Look abroad through Nature's range, Nature's mighty law is change.
nature fool
Of what I call God, And fools call Nature. Robert Browning
nature civilization interest
If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature. Ronald Wright
nature garden rainfall
In my garden, after a rainfall, you can faintly, yes, hear the breaking of new blooms. Truman Capote
nature men wisest-man
Nature hath nothing made so base, but can read some instruction to the wisest man. Tryon Edwards
nature travel tired
I was in continual agony; I have never in my life been so tired as on the summit of Everest that day. I just sat and sat there, oblivious to everything.... Reinhold Messner
nature self environmental
The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery. Reinhold Niebuhr
nature feet lakes
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
nature journey ecosystems
Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies. Rebecca Solnit
nature writing butterfly
In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.
nature animal imagination
They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech.
nature exploration cease
We shall not cease from exploration T. S. Eliot
nature struggle men
It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
nature sea way
This much is certain: We have the power to damage the sea, but no sure way to heal the harm. Sylvia Earle
nature children milk
When you breast feed your child, that breast milk that nature starts us out on has almost the same percentage of polyunsaturated, monounsaturated and saturated fat as butter. So nature clearly wanted us to have a high fat diet. Suzanne Somers
nature america progress
Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic. Susan Sontag
nature gun people
Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been - what people needed protection from. Now nature tamed, endangered, mortal - needs to be protected from people.
nature eye science
Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs. Scott Adams
nature healing environment
The healing of our relationship with place begins with the preservation of the natural environment. We cannot go to the wild for renewal if no wilderness is left. Starhawk
nature native-american heart
Man's heart away from nature becomes hard. Standing Bear
nature years computer
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature. Stephen Wolfram